14. Then Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
15. But in response Hannah said, “No, my lord, I am a woman with an oppressed spirit! I haven’t been drinking wine or beer. Instead I’ve been pouring out my soul before Adonai.
16. Don’t consider your handmaid a wicked woman. For out of my great anguish and grief I’ve been praying until now.”
17. Then Eli responded, “Go in shalom, and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you asked of Him.”
18. “May your maidservant find favor in your eyes,” she said. So the woman went her way; she ate, and her countenance was no longer dejected.
19. They rose up early in the morning and worshipped before Adonai, then went back to their home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and Adonai remembered her.
20. So it came to pass at the turn of the year that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, “because I have asked Adonai for him.”